J. L. GONZALEZ wrote:

If you are speaking of antibiotics from treatment of a sick dairy cow,
milk is tested for antibiotics, and if there is one part per billion in
the milk, it is dumped by the plant. Sounds real safe to me.

Dear Mr. Gonzalez,

In theorey, it should be safe!  It is not.  When FDA allowed one part
per hundred-million of antibiotics in milk it probably was a safe level.

In 1990 MONSANTO scientists (Dale Bauman, Margaret Miller, Suzanne
Sechen, Robert Collier, et.al) noted that cows treated with the new
genetically engineered hormone were getting ulcers on their udders.
These cows were "putting" increased levels of blood, pus and bacteria
into the milk.  These ulcers were collectively called mastitis.

There are two types of mastitis.  The kind you see, which is obvious,
and the kind you do not see.  FDA estimated that for every cow with the
visible type of mastitis there were anywhere from 15 to 40 cows with the
secondary type.

If a farmer had a herd of 1000 cows and he woke up one morning to find
ten cows with ulcers on their udders, he would also be faced with 150 to
400 of his cows adding their pus, blood and increased bacterial counts
to the milk.

What would you do as a farmer?  Treat the entire herd with antibiotics,
that's what!

MONSANTO placed their scientists at FDA.  Once there, the acceptable
level of antibiotic was increased by 100 times!

FDA continues to say that antibiotic levels are well within the safe
limits but they do not tell you that Margaret Miller arbitrarily changed
those safe limits by a factor of 100X.

Consumers Reports and the Wall Street Journal each performed independent
testing of milk samples and collectively found them to include nearly
100 different types of antibiotic residues.

Remember, milk from hundreds of dairy farms are co-mingled when put on
trucks and brought to the dairy processor.

I believe that antibiotics no longer work because strains of bacteria
and virus have developed immunities to the many different antibiotics
contained in our number one food source.

There are not enough inspectors to test the 400 million pounds of milk
produced every single day in America!

Robert Cohen